AFG4061

Advanced management accounting

Mr Brian Conheady

6 points
* 3 hours per week
* Second semester
* Gippsland
* Prerequisite: acceptance in the Bachelor of Business (Honours) program

Objectives On completion of this subject students should have developed skills of analysis, evaluation and synthesis in cost and management accounting and, in the process, acquire an awareness of current developments and issue in the area.

Synopsis Complex modern industrial organisations within which the various facets of decision making and controlling operations take place; the subject discussion of costing systems and activity based costing, activity management, non-financial indicators, contingency theory and agency theory in management accounting and behavioural aspects of accounting.

Assessment Class presentation: 10%
* Assignment: 20%
* Examination (3 hours): 70%

Prescribed texts

To be advised